I hate it when things get interesting
It started on Tuesday when my mom had a seizure while walking at the baseball park. She's had a history of them for years, so we weren't bothered at all by it. We're more worried that she'll fall and hurt herself when her epilepsy kicks up again, so when she was picked up by the EMS without any ID, she was taken in as a "30 year-old Jane Doe." My mom is 52.
Wednesday and Thursday she had a headache all day, but Friday it got so bad she went to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed something in her cerebellum. They transferred her to a hospital downtown where an MRI showed that she'd had a stroke! She spent all Saturday and much of today at the hospital being tested, and I think they found that her estrogen medicine she'd been taking after her hysterectomy had somehow choked off the blood supply to her brain, so she's been ordered to stop taking those. Or something. I'm no doctor. Today she felt almost 100% better, and was discharged around 4. We're still waiting on some more test results, but she feels quite fine now.
Praise items: Despite having a stroke, she suffered no loss of motor skills or anything that we can observe. She was actually fine Saturday save for a bad headache all day. Today her only problem was a small appetite, so we brought her some yummy Indian food from a nearby restaurant (and holy cow do they have some good Saag Paneer).
Sucky way for her to spend Mother's Day, but I'm just glad she's home now!
I do apologize for not posting on this sooner, but I've been putting in some serious hours at work and didn't really know any details until very recently.
Wednesday and Thursday she had a headache all day, but Friday it got so bad she went to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed something in her cerebellum. They transferred her to a hospital downtown where an MRI showed that she'd had a stroke! She spent all Saturday and much of today at the hospital being tested, and I think they found that her estrogen medicine she'd been taking after her hysterectomy had somehow choked off the blood supply to her brain, so she's been ordered to stop taking those. Or something. I'm no doctor. Today she felt almost 100% better, and was discharged around 4. We're still waiting on some more test results, but she feels quite fine now.
Praise items: Despite having a stroke, she suffered no loss of motor skills or anything that we can observe. She was actually fine Saturday save for a bad headache all day. Today her only problem was a small appetite, so we brought her some yummy Indian food from a nearby restaurant (and holy cow do they have some good Saag Paneer).
Sucky way for her to spend Mother's Day, but I'm just glad she's home now!
I do apologize for not posting on this sooner, but I've been putting in some serious hours at work and didn't really know any details until very recently.